Tim McDonough composed on 2015-10-31 16:22 (UTC-0500):
> Perhaps there is a way to do this with a CD/DVD boot parameter and I'm
> not aware of it... I wish there was a way to be presented with a more
> complete list of options at install time. On some installations with
> small disks I really don't need all of the documentation, utilities,
> etc. Is there an option that just installs the bare basics of a running
> system with networking and apt-get?
> I'm not saying this should be the standard or even the default, just an
> option to provide a quick basic install on a minimal system.
I've been putting these on my installation kernel cmdline:
tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false
I don't recall just how small the result, but it is svelte.
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